Erich Hörl

Since 2014, Erich Hörl is full professor of Media Culture at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also a senior researcher at Leuphana’s Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL). Prior to this, he was professor of Media Technology and Media Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, where he was the head of the ‘Bochumer Kolloquium Medienwissenschaft’ (bkm). Furthermore, he is speaker of the Doctoral Research Group “Knowledge Cultures/Digital Media” and deputy spokesperson of the research training group “Cultures of Critique”.

Currently, he is working on a general ecology of media and technology as well as on a critique of the processes of cybernetisation of every form of life and every mode of existence, focussing on a historical-systematic outlining of a technoecology of participation. He publishes internationally on the history as well as the problems and challenges of the contemporary technological condition.

He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Konstanz in summer term 2016.